There is hereby created "The New Castle Planning
Commission" of The Mayor and Council of New Castle.
The New Castle Planning Commission shall make
a comprehensive development plan for the development of the entire
area of the City of New Castle or of such part or parts thereof as
said Commission may deem advisable. Such comprehensive development
plan shall show, among other things, existing and proposed public
ways, streets, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, parks, parkways, playgrounds,
sites for public buildings and structures, pierhead and bulkhead lines,
waterways, routes of railroads and buses, locations of sewers, water
mains and other public utilities and other appurtenances of such a
plan, including certain private ways. Such plan shall be adopted,
and may be added to or changed from time to time, by a majority vote
of such Commission and shall be a public record.
Said Commission shall have full power and authority
to make such investigations, maps and reports of the resources, possibilities
and needs of the city as it deems desirable, provided that the total
expenditures of said Commission shall not exceed the appropriation
for its expenses. Upon completion of any such reports, the Planning
Commission shall submit the same to the City Council with its recommendations.
It shall report annually to the City Council on the activities of
the Planning Commission during the preceding year.
Said Commission, its officers and agents may,
so far as said Commission deems necessary in carrying out the provisions
of this chapter, enter upon any lands and there make examinations
and surveys, and place and maintain monuments and marks.
Said Commission shall have all the authority
vested in municipal planning commissions by 22 Del. C. §§ 701
through 711, and shall perform the duties therein set forth, whether
or not such authority or duties are expressly referred to herein.